Rules Of Attraction
June, 2012
HOW WE RELATE TO ONE ANOTHERWhen a male fruit fly wants to have sex with a female, he taps her with his foreleg and vibrates his wings. If she's interested, she will sit there coyly, but if she's not interested she will either run away or strike him with her wings or legs. Although I have elicited frighteningly similar responses from human females, in fruit flies this ritual is completely programmed. Their actions are so directly related to their biological constitution that scientistshave dis...
